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2018 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist Prize Nominations Open
Nominations for the 2018 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist Prize open on 1 Nov 2017 and close on 1 Feb 2018.
As an affiliated commission (AC2) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) offers an annual IUPAP Young Scientist Prize. The IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes recognize outstanding achievements of scientists at early stages of their career. Each prize consists of a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient, a medal and 1000 Euros.
The conditions for the prize are:
The IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist Prize can be for work in any area of relativity and gravitation, theoretical or experimental.
On 1 February 2018, nominees must have a maximum of eight years of research experience (excluding career interruptions) following the Ph.D. (or equivalent) degree. They are expected to have displayed significant achievement and exceptional promise for future achievements in relativity and gravitation.
The primary nominator must be a member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
Nominations may be made by any member of ISGRG (other than the nominee) and should be accompanied by a CV, a proposed citation of 30-50 words summarizing the reason for the nomination, a list of publications and a description (about one page long) of the specific achievements of the nominee, who need not be an ISGRG member.
It is important that the selection committee has specific information that allows it to determine what the nominee has contributed and how this will impact the subject. Therefore it will be extremely helpful to the selection committee to receive at least two additional letters supporting the nomination that detail the expected significance of the contributions of the nominee.
It is also appropriate to submit additional materials such as published articles. In the case of co-authored or multi-authored publications, it is essential for nominators and supporters to discuss the nominee's precise contributions, if known, in addition to the work's overall significance.
The entire package should be bundled into a single PDF file and emailed to the Secretary of ISGRG, beverlyberger@me.com, by 1 February 2018. The winner will be announced on 14 March 2018 and the award made shortly thereafter. The official presentation of the award will be made at the GR22 conference in 2019.
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Le Comité 1540 du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies créé en vertu du paragraphe 4 de la résolution 1540 du Conseil du  est officiellement désigné sous le nom de « Comité créé par la résolution 1540 (2004) ».

Mandat du Comité

Le Comité est un organe subsidiaire du Conseil de sécurité qui l'a créé conformément à l'article 28 du Règlement intérieur provisoire du Conseil de sécurité pour une période ne dépassant pas deux ans.

En faisant appel, le cas échéant, à d'autres compétences, le Comité fait rapport au Conseil de sécurité sur son examen de la mise en œuvre de la résolution 1540 (2004) sur la non-prolifération des armes de destruction massive.

Le Comité reçoit et examine les rapports nationaux des États membres – dont le premier doit être soumis au plus tard six mois après l'adoption de la résolution 1540 (2004) – sur les mesures qu'ils auront prises ou qu'ils envisagent de prendre pour appliquer ladite résolution.

Le Comité peut, s'il y a lieu, décider de prendre des dispositions en vue de coopérer avec l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) et l'Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC). S'il le juge utile, il peut également prendre des dispositions pour coopérer avec d'autres organismes internationaux, régionaux et sous-régionaux et des comités du Conseil de sécurité compétents en la matière qui peuvent, à son avis, contribuer à ses travaux.

Le Comité soumet au Conseil de sécurité des rapports périodiques, et, s'il y a lieu, des recommandations, sur l'application de la résolution 1540 (2004).

Sachant que certains États peuvent avoir besoin d'aide pour appliquer les dispositions de la résolution 1540 (2004) sur leur territoire, le Comité continuera d'inviter les États qui sont en mesure de le faire à apporter leur concours, selon qu'il conviendra, aux États qui ne disposent pas de l'infrastructure juridique et réglementaire, de l'expérience pratique ou des ressources nécessaires pour se conformer aux dispositions énoncées ci-dessus, et qui auront expressément demandé cette aide.

Le Comité réaffirme qu'aucune des obligations énoncées dans la résolution 1540 (2004) ne doit être interprétée d'une manière qui soit contraire aux droits et obligations des États parties au Traité sur la non-prolifération des armes nucléaires, à la Convention sur les armes chimiques et à la Convention sur les armes biologiques ou à toxines, ou les modifie, ou qui modifie les responsabilités de l'AIEA et de l'OIAC.

Composition du Comité

Le Comité est composé de tous les membres du Conseil de sécurité.

Le Président du Comité est nommé par le Conseil de sécurité. Il est secondé par des vice-présidents, également nommés par le Conseil de sécurité.

Le Président préside les séances du Comité. En cas d'empêchement, il désigne un vice-président qui le remplace.

Le secrétariat du Comité est assuré par le Secrétariat de l'Organisation des Nations unies.

Pour s'acquitter de son mandat, le Comité examine et approuve le recrutement d'experts. Les candidatures sont proposées par les États membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies et par le Secrétariat, compte tenu des recommandations des États membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies.

Séances du Comité
Le Comité se réunit chaque fois que le Président le juge nécessaire, ou à la demande d'un de ses membres. Un préavis d'au moins 48 heures est normalement donné pour toute séance du Comité, sauf décision contraire de ses membres.

Le Comité se réunit à huis clos, sauf s'il en décide autrement.

Le Comité peut inviter tout États Membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies à participer à l'examen de toute question dont il est saisi et qui concerne plus particulièrement les intérêts de cet État Membre.

Le Président peut, s'il y a lieu, inviter des experts du Comité à assister aux séances.

Le Comité peut, s'il y a lieu, inviter des membres du Secrétariat, ou d'autres personnes qu'il juge compétentes, à lui fournir les connaissances spécialisées ou les informations appropriées, ou à l'aider de toute autre manière à examiner les questions qui relèvent de sa compétence.

Documentation et ordre du jour

En collaboration avec le Secrétariat, le Président fait distribuer un ordre du jour provisoire et les documents y ayant trait au plus tard 48 heures avant une séance du Comité. Il fait également distribuer les autres documents pertinents aux membres du Comité.

Informations fournies au Comité

Le Comité peut examiner des informations émanant d'organismes visés au paragraphe 2 d) s'il les juge utiles pour ses travaux.

Les informations reçues par le Comité restent confidentielles si leur source le demande ou si le Comité en décide ainsi.

Rapports

Les rapports soumis par les États membres en vertu du paragraphe 4 de la résolution 1540 (2004) sont distribués comme documents du Conseil de sécurité.

Décisions

Le Comité prend ses décisions par consensus. Si ses membres ne parviennent pas à un accord sur une question donnée, le Président mène de nouvelles consultations propres à favoriser le consensus. Si, à l'issue de ces consultations, aucun consensus ne se dégage, la question est soumise au Conseil de sécurité pour examen.

Si le Comité est d'accord, les décisions peuvent être prises dans le cadre d'une procédure écrite. Dans ce cas, le Président fait distribuer le projet de décision du Comité à tous ses membres et leur demande de faire savoir, dans les 96 heures ou, en cas d'urgence, dans un délai plus court à déterminer par le Président mais ne pouvant être inférieur à 48 heures, s'ils s'opposent au projet de décision. Si aucune objection n'est exprimée dans les délais indiqués, la décision est considérée comme adoptée.

Transparence

Le Comité s'acquitte de sa tâche dans la plus grande transparence.

En concertation avec le Comité, le Président et, le cas échéant, les Vice-Présidents organisent régulièrement des séances d'information périodiques à l'intention des États Membres intéressés, des organismes internationaux compétents et des médias afin d'expliquer les travaux du Comité.

Le Comité publie, s'il y a lieu, des communiqués de presse sur ses activités.

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies
 Désarmement nucléaire
 Destruction mutuelle assurée
 Prolifération nucléaire

Liens externes
  Site officiel du Comité 1540
  Texte de la Résolution 1540 (2004)

Organisation des Nations unies
Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies
Désarmement
Prolifération nucléaire

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CONGRESS' NASTY FIGHT TO KEEP CCC FUNDED, MFT PAYMENTS FLOWING
POLITICO reports:
Partisan rancor on the House Agriculture Committee has reached new heights of bitterness, personal attacks and Twitter-delivered insults.
The sniping on Capitol Hill on Thursday was as nasty, and as public, as at any time during last year's farm bill debate - and it may have been worse.
A spat at a committee hearing in the morning sparked a Lone Star State skirmish in the afternoon between Texas members Mike Conaway and Filem�n Vela. Vela, a Democrat, called the ranking Republican a "racist Christian pretender" and took a second verbal shot that was rooted in the 2018 farm bill debate, when Conaway ran the committee.
Thursday's showdown centered on which party should get credit for preserving language in the House short-term spending bill that maintained USDA's ability to continue paying farmers for losses resulting from retaliatory tariffs brought on by President Donald Trump's trade battles.
Hostilities began with a drawn-out debate among House Democrats this week over whether to grant USDA some leeway on the $30 billion cap on borrowing for the Commodity Credit Corporation, the institution the Trump administration has used to make trade aid payments to farmers.
USDA has neared the CCC's borrowing limit as it has continued to write checks to farmers, and the administration asked Congress to preserve its ability to roll out $16 billion in a second round of aid this year.
Moderate Democrats, led by House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), backed the White House's request. The CCC is about more than trade aid to farmers; it also funds commodity subsidies, conservation and disaster aid.
But Democrats beyond the committee and in the Senate wanted to use the stopgap spending bill to force USDA to meet new transparency requirements.
Senate Republicans also weighed in on the House dispute, arguing that the trade aid payments are necessary to keep some farmers in business.
Democratic leadership eventually decided on Wednesday evening to release a stopgap bill that would grant USDA some flexibility at the CCC but require the department to send Congress a breakdown of how the trade-aid money is being spent, as well as a report on how the department estimated trade damage to farmers.
The continuing resolution, which passed the House on Thursday afternoon and will be voted on in the Senate next week, also would require USDA to disclose any foreign-owned companies or their subsidiaries that benefit from trade assistance.
At a hearing on Thursday morning, Peterson and Conaway bickered over the issue. Conaway, who supported the White House's proposal throughout, was frustrated that some House Democrats tried to hamper USDA's ability to deliver assistance to farmers - in effect, as he said during the hearing, using farmers as pawns in a political struggle.
But the Texas Republican was also angered that Peterson and other Democrats on the committee were trying to take credit for keeping the CCC language in the stopgap.
"It's ironic that as news was released about the budget deal some are implying that the House Democratic leadership is somehow to be thanked, apparently for failing to follow through on the threat to do serious harm to rural America," Conaway said in a statement released Thursday, during the hearing.
"That's akin to Texans thanking Santa Anna for making Texas a Republic. The good news is the Democrats failed in their effort to use our hard-working farm and ranch families as pawns in their obsessive vendetta against the president."
That perspective annoyed Vela, a fellow member of the Agriculture Committee.
"Our caucus doesn't need to be lectured by a racist Christian pretender who led the effort to starve America's poor," Vela tweeted, referring to Conaway's partisan push, as House Agriculture chairman last year, to use the farm bill to make cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. "Every Democratic member of this committee championed the efforts to protect [trade aid payments] in this week's CR negotiations."
Vela confirmed to POLITICO the tweet was aimed at Conaway. Asked if he had spoken with Conaway since the tweet was sent, Vela said: "He hasn't talked to me yet - but I can't wait until he tries to."
Conaway wasn't aware of Vela's tweet until it was showed to him by a POLITICO reporter.
"So he's anti-rural America as well?" Conaway said, after initially declining to comment.
"All I said was that rural America and production agriculture has been held hostage and taken as a pawn by Democratic leadership," he added. "If that's untrue, I'd be happy to have that conversation; but it is true, so I'm not sure what he got mad about."

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NHK News Leads "Umbrella Movement" Leaders Before Large-Scale Demo on 31st | NHK News
In Hong Kong, where protests continue over proposing amendments to the ordinance that allow the suspects to be handed over to mainland China, five years before the large-scale demonstration on the 31st…
Hong Kong 31st "Umbrella Campaign" leaders arrested before large-scale demonstration on 31st August 12:25
Leader of the protest "Umbrella Movement" five years ago in Hong Kong, where protests continue over protests over the proposed amendments to the ordinance that will allow suspects to be handed over to mainland China They were successively detained by the police.
According to the democratic group "Hong Kong Shuji", on the morning of the 30th, Mr. Huang Yuan, who led the protest "Umbrella Movement" seeking democratic elections in Hong Kong on the morning of the group, headed to the subway station It means that you were detained by the police.
In addition, Mr. Shuniwa, a member of the same organization, was detained where he was at home, but none of the charges are known.
Mr. Huang was sentenced to prison in connection with the "Umbrella Movement", and after participating in June, he participated in protests such as surrounding the police headquarters.
The police also revealed that they were arrested on the night of 29th on the suspicion of being involved in the uprising of representatives from the Hong Kong National Party, which received an order to ban the activities. On January 1st, Chen was arrested on suspicion of having weapons and explosives and was on bail.
On the 31st in Hong Kong, five years have passed since China decided to effectively shut down democracy to run for the election of Hong Kong 's top administrative secretary, which triggered the "Umbrella Movement".
A large-scale demonstration is planned to match this, but the police have decided not to accept the demonstration on the 29th, and it is expected that the reaction will increase further among the citizens under the restraint of the leaders The
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